Touchprobe just arrived

[scratch (jason)]

The touchprobe I ordered from Sparkfun a few weeks ago just arrived. I’ll be hooking it up this weekend, anyone familiar with how to use it with UGS or CNCJS?

[awesome-wheel (John)]

I contact Sparkfun on the phone a few weeks ago, they said they do not have it in stock?

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

My understanding is that Sparkfun erroneously put the Probe up as available a while back, then took the listing down, but not before some folks had ordered it.

Hopefully this means that they’ll be back in stock and generally available soon.

[scratch (jason)]

The probe shipped straight from Shapeoko in Illinois, not actually from sparkfun, so I would guess that it’s safe to assume more are coming. This was the message I got from sparkfun after I placed my order on July 13th
"Thank you so much for your recent SparkFun Order! We are reaching out to let you know that due to an unexpected delay with our supplier, there will be an estimated additional 10 business days required for processing your order for the new Shapeoko Touch Probe(TOL-14806) product.

"

[neilferreri (Neil Ferreri Ω)]

@scratch

anyone familiar with how to use it with UGS or CNCJS?

CNCJS CNC Control Software

This one will probe Z first, so you don’t have to mess with changing distances. You can paste the stuff in parentheses with it as a reminder) (start with the end mill 15mm ABOVE the plate, about 15mm or less from bottom left corner.) G21 ;make sure we’re in mm G91 ;Incremental mode G38.2 Z-25 F75 ;Probe Z G10 L20 P1 Z22 ;Set Current Z as 22mm - thickness of your plateG G0 Z3 ;lift Z 3mm G0 X-25 ;Move left 25mm G0 Z-10 ;Move down 10mm, should be 7mm below probe surface G38.2 X25 F75 ;Pr…

[scratch (jason)]

Brilliant! Thanks mate!

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Carbide 3D put out a small batch of Probes to cover the orders which were placed when Sparkfun mistakenly had the page live. Hopefully that’s the last oddity between now and when the next batch is formally released.

For more details see:

Was the probe released already?

Here’s all of the background information I can provide: We use Shopify for our online store, which is really bare-bones. If you need any “extra” functionality, you need to pay for a plugin to add that function (or write your own). We pay for a “notify me” plugin from a third-party to manage the waiting list. Once the items are back in inventory, the email are supposed to be sent out to everyone on the list. It seems to have worked, the probes began selling almost immediately and were sold o…